Dutch Labour's position is rather bizarre. They're threatening to withdraw their support for the bailout if Greece holds a referendum. Since when is voting on anything a bad thing? Oppose the bailout for not implementing the necessary regulation to prevent that theft from reoccurring. Don't oppose it because they want to hold a referendum.

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"Conservatives used the public's money through the Canadian Mortgage Housing Corporation to bail out Canada's big banks by buying $70 billion of home mortgages from the banks, and also used the Bank of Canada and other subsidy programs to help the banks, for a total of almost $200 billion in subsidies in 2009 -- yet they did not require anything from the banks in return."

(Source: http://dwatch.ca/camp/actcorpsystem.html )

Democracy Watch has some practical campaigns aimed at reducing government corruption, limiting power of corporate lobbyists (ever wonder why it's not feeling like rule "for the people"); independent watchdog agencies whistle blower protection, etc. They've been campaigning since 1996-7, I feel it's Occupy relevant, concrete changes we can get behind, but it won't fix where we're at, but can at least stop the steamroller. More infor @ Democracy Watch's, www.coffeeparty.ca

So much is being done in secret, behind people's backs. . . we don't know how much the gov't is paying (of our tax dollars) to the IMF. . .? I don't trust a word out of this gov'ts mouth, but also the problems have been ongoing, Libs were weak too.

Indeed. I find it especially bizarre right after they did that big press release in response to the Occupy Vancouver claiming we didn’t have to bail out the banks in Canada like they did in the United States. That was a bold faced lie. I guess I should be used to it by now but it still astounds me how they can get away with lying to the media like that. Thanks for the links. Democracy Watch is pretty solid.